Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1430 Wang Xieyan, the common people's home
This era has changed, not just the advent of the age of firearms. Gunpowder shattered the underlying logic of feudal warriors, military exploits and landlords.

There is a deeper meaning as well.

That is, productivity is constantly improving.

As stated in the Manifesto: The bourgeoisie has created more and greater productive forces during its class rule of less than 100 years than all the productive forces created by all previous generations.The subjugation of the forces of nature, the introduction of machinery, the application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, the travel of steamships, the passage of railroads, the use of the telegraph, the reclamation of whole continents, the navigation of rivers, vast populations conjured up as if by magic from below— —Which century in the past imagined that such productive forces were hidden in social labor?

That is to say, from now on, the explosion of productivity will no longer be the stagnation of the Iron Age of cattle farming, or even the lack of much development for hundreds or thousands of years.

And will likely be exponential growth, unprecedented.

then.

In the feudal era, because the productivity was the same, it was almost unchanged for hundreds of years, and there was basically no possibility of change.

Therefore, the rule of "one against a hundred" of feudal warriors, knights, priests, and students can be maintained.

And now, productivity continues to expand.

Therefore, there is a solution to the metaphor of one table of food and one hundred tables of people.

That is: there will be more and more dishes, and in the end, it will definitely allow all the people at the hundred tables to sit on the table and eat.

However, even if it is the speed of light, it is not infinitely fast, and it takes time to reach a place; even if it is flashing for playing games, there must be a CD mechanism, it is impossible to flash infinitely and arrive instantly.

Dashun's problem lies in:

Now there is only one table of food.

The new school firmly believes that the future is bright and the future is beautiful, and in the future, a hundred tables of people will be able to eat at the table.

But... What should I do during the process from one table of dishes to one hundred tables of dishes?
Or, how to transition?

In theory, is there a workaround?

Have.

The first step is to let all the guests believe that there will be more and more dishes, and there will definitely be 100 tables filled in the future, and everyone can eat at the table.

In the second step, the people at the table of 99 each made a bun and gnawed it first.Take out a table and sit at a table.Until the last one who gnawed on the corn bread was able to eat at the table.You eat it first, and I guarantee that the one that will be served first will not come to grab your corn bread.So why don't you flip the table?
The so-called "one person sends one bun" here means "equal field" and "limited field".

Why must one person make a bun?

The reason is also very simple.

If you don’t give out the buns, and even snatch all the buns from the table, the people at the table of 99 will directly overturn the table.

That's the same sentence.

What is hateful about imperialism in the bourgeois revolution is not the bankruptcy of the small peasants, the collapse of their economy.

As far as the bourgeois revolution is concerned, the disintegration of the small peasant economy in the country is originally its own task.If you can't do this little thing, how can you make a big deal?

The hateful thing about imperialism within the category of bourgeois revolution is that it prevents the development of the bourgeoisie in the country.

The New People's Revolution is a bourgeois revolution.It is because the national assets of the country have been abolished and cannot be supported anymore. As a last resort, others carry the banner.

The problem now is that Dashun's own national capital has become branched.Not only has the branching risen, but the branching has been very strong, from branching to the "sorrow of cloth" in the slave trade in West Africa, it is no longer Indian cloth, but Songsubu.

Then, with the movement of the steam engine and the opening of the steamer.

If you don't care, Songsu's first-mover advantage, the transportation capacity along the Yangtze River waterway and steamships, and Hubei's cotton textile industry may die immediately.The small peasant economy can collapse immediately.

Capital is profit-seeking.

Can make money in Hubei, I want to go to West Africa for Mao?
Besides, West Africa is fucking occupied by those who go first, and I can't squeeze in, so I can only eat Hubei.

Oh, for the sake of our compatriots, please don't annex land, please don't sell goods to Hubei, and please go to the external market?Does the capital listen?Do you have this awareness?

Capital is profit-seeking.

If you want to play free trade, you have to have a bun for everyone.

Well, if we talk about free trade, then there is no need to restrict the sale of land, and the past state will continue, and land deeds can be traded without any delay or restriction.

Then we have to rely on various means to make the industry's return on investment much higher than hoarding, buying land, and collecting rent.

Does Liu Yu have this ability?
Not really.

Even, not only did he not have it, but it is estimated that it is difficult for anyone to have such skills at this time, so that the return on investment in industry is higher than that in land speculation.

In Dashun, arable land has the meaning of "financial assets".It is not a simple logic of means of production to expand production, but a very strong property of value preservation and financial assets.

Historically, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were gentry who understood very clearly: buying land is the most valuable investment.Regardless of whether it is the Zhu family or the Li family, the king's flag at the head of the city changes, the land of the Zhang family still belongs to the Zhang family, and the land of the Wang family still belongs to the Wang family.

This also involves the security of an asset.

Don't say that Liu Yu doesn't have the ability to make the rate of return of various industries so high.Even in the whole world, how many industries are there at this time, whose return on investment and asset security can be higher than buying land?

Since free trade cannot do it.

Then go to administrative means.

Directly cancel land sales, equalization of land, and land limitation, so as to ensure that most people have a cornbread in their hands.

This is the theoretical approach Liu Yu mentioned:
The first step is to let all the guests believe that there will be more and more dishes, and there will definitely be 100 tables filled in the future, and everyone can eat at the table.

In the second step, the people at the table of 99 each made a bun and gnawed it first.Take out a table and sit at a table.Until the last one who gnawed on the corn bread was able to eat at the table.You eat it first, and I guarantee that the one that will be served first will not come to grab your corn bread.

And these two steps...

Can Dashun do it?
Can Dashun figure it out?

Dashun has this organizational ability, grassroots management and control ability, and unwavering determination to cook 100 tables of dishes?

If Dashun had this ability, then these would not be a problem at all.There are still at least 60 billion acres of arable land in the Pacific Ocean. With this ability, a wave of mass migration and cultivation of tens of millions of people is just like playing.

It is precisely because Dashun does not have this ability that the problem is the problem.

With Dashun's current level of productivity, coupled with a powerful ruling group capable of penetrating to the grassroots, the entire country will focus on "shipbuilding immigrants", and it will be easy to move millions of people a year.

However, the Dashun Dynasty obviously did not have this ability.

And this metaphor of "making 100 tables of dishes" is basically what the old emperor said to a certain extent.

"In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people."

At least, from a technical point of view, the emperor who used natural fertilizers such as saltpeter in Xiyuan, took off his pants and farted with a steam engine to pump water that he didn't need at all, can be regarded as having tasted the delicacy of "that table of food" technically.

It doesn't matter if it's for Confucian ideals, for the maintenance of rule, or for any other reason.

With this idea, even if it is classified as a variant of the Westernization Movement thought by Liu Yu, it can still be regarded as a bit of benevolence.

However, this is not the same as Zhao Yi, who offered Liu Yu the "strategy of paralleling the north and south rivers" at the new embankment of the Daqing River a few days ago.

The problem of the Yellow River in Dashun has never been a simple problem of river engineering technology.

It doesn't matter if it's one river or two rivers that change their flow every 50 years.Technically, no pressure.

Even in history, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, many people of insight suggested that the Yellow River North River should be directly taken from the Daqing River and the Fuliang Mountain Park as a regulating reservoir.In the end, the Yellow River that broke through did go through the Daqing River.It can be said that thousands of years of water control experience, in terms of vision and technology, the problem is not big.

However, the crux of the Yellow River issue is not the "strategy of paralleling the north and the south".

The key to the problem of the Yellow River is the guarantee of the Western forces in the South Seas, the nomadic forces in the Northwest, the safety of the water transport to the sea to expel the Western forces, and the resettlement or suppression of millions of water workers...

Anyone who doesn't talk about how to solve these problems, but just talks about the Yellow River issue can be regarded as empty talk. Whoever dares to do business with the stability of the rule and the non-separation of the North and the South? The armed merchant ships of the Westerners who went to Songjiang, Zhoushan, directly engaged in shipping?If the Western forces in Nanyang and Macau are not resolved, Zhenjiang may be needed to go to the canal; if you don’t go to the canal, you don’t need to go to Zhenjiang, as long as you win the Heishuiyang naval battle, you can directly declare the calf, the economic center directly separated from the political center.And many problems such as the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest Tusi, and the return of the Western Regions have not been resolved, so you dare to do your best to build ships and go south?What's the matter, there is a Potosi silver mine at home, can you afford to attack from all directions?

So, after understanding the problem of the Yellow River, why did Liu Yu feel that those "savvy people" in Dashun were just talking nonsense.

I also understand why at this time Liu Yu sneered at the emperor's "benevolent heart and benevolence" and "Wang Xieyan, the people's family", thinking that it was just empty talk.

Jesus also talked about the bastard and said five loaves and two fish. Isn't this easier than your industrialization?Sound fuller?
The world is physical.

People have to eat.

It’s not that, God said, if there is a fertilizer factory, high-rise buildings will be erected on the ground in an instant, and when the fertilizer factory appears, there will be skilled workers who rub two clay figurines.

Until the emperor said that according to the experience of the founding of the country, when the common people have no food and the poor have no place to stand, they will rebel.

That's what made Liu Yu accept the previous ridicule a little bit.

Since the emperor realized that the world is about material things—of course, basically, many well-known emperors and reformers in the feudal dynasties of the past dynasties had a simple understanding of this point of view.

Dashun's practical learning can be valued and allowed to continue to develop. The biggest "hero" is saltpeter.

Because the fertilizing effect of natural chemical fertilizers is immediate.

The biggest problem that Dashun has always faced is that the population continues to increase, and the food is running out.

If Confucianism can solve this problem, then there will be no great development of practical learning.

Real science has not solved this problem in essence. At least, it is not possible to artificially manufacture chemical fertilizers, only natural chemical fertilizers can be used.

But at the very least, practical studies light up hope.

For a large country with a population of more than [-] million and per capita land that is about to hit the red line, the power of so-called "technology" can make the emperor abandon the cognitive awareness of "unique skills and obscenity", and instead fully support and even become a technology leader. Supporters can and can only be chemical fertilizers.

Even though, this chemical fertilizer was actually dug out from the ground, and it was a long time before it was artificially synthesized.

These days, giving the emperor a pocket watch inlaid with diamonds, the emperor thinks it is just a plaything, but it is a trick.

Give the emperor a bag of stinky urea, and the emperor can deeply understand the great power of "technology".

Not because the emperor is a fool, but because the emperor is not a fool, and he knows the material basis for the operation of the empire.

If science and technology cannot solve the problem of yield per mu, or at least provide some hope, then the feudal emperors basically do not feel the need to develop science and technology. If technology cannot solve the problem of yield per mu, then in the eyes of the emperor, sooner or later It is death, but it is death today and death tomorrow. Even if the steam engine yield cannot exceed [-] catties per mu, it will also fall into the problem of chaos and reincarnation.

It's better to focus all your energy on the professional research of "assuming that you can't break through the stability maintenance and governance techniques under the technology of yielding [-] jin per mu, it can last for a few years."

Now, all the emperor thinks about is his "Wang Xieyan", who is a plow farmer, who can fly into the homes of ordinary people.

However, the emperor can understand "fertilizer".

But it is impossible to understand what is meant by "industrialization".

Fertilizers, and industrialization, are not the same thing.

The steam engine and industrialization are not the same thing.

The emperor can understand chemical fertilizers, the power of steam to pump water, and the benefits of spreading chemical fertilizers...

However, not to mention chemical fertilizers and steam engines, even African chiefs who fly all day long—flying, which has a higher technological content—how many people understand what industrialization is?

(End of this chapter)